For what it's worth....I just watched a DirecTV television ad touting the differences between Dish and DirecTV. After the quality superiority they then touted that DirecTV had DVRs running Tivo software. Not just a small mention but one of the primary points of the ad. Maybe since they are loudly pointing Tvo out they will take better care of their firmware! One can hope.

I am not sure this means anything really. Occasionally DirecTV send me email ads promoting the new DTiVo, though I already have one. My guess is that there is some minimal level of marketing specified in the contract between DirecTV and TiVo.

I like mine. I don't need anything other than basic DVR record/playback functions. A recent SW update now allows the 30 second skip to be enabled. Hard drive upgrade is very simple. The peanut remote is wonderful. If the thing worked with TiVo Desktop it would be perfect (for me).

So far I'm happy with mine. I'm happy that the 30 second skip does work. Just wish it would flip tuners with the down arrow as well as the live tv button (an hour buffer would be good too). Is it perfect? No, but I just spent 6 days at my mom's house. She has a DTV DVR (same hardware at the Tivo box) and I hate the DTV firmware and the DTV remote. It doesn't do skip...and that drives me nuts (no DTV DVR does...why? Even Comcast DVR's do that). Say what you want about the DTV Tivo but I'll take it over the DTV stuff anyday.